Trump: South Korea Will Pay US More Money to Defend Itself From North Korea

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8/7/2019Updated: 8/8/2019

President Donald Trump said on Aug. 7 that South Korea is willing to pay the United States “substantially more” than it previously did for defending the nation from the nuclear-armed North Korea.

“South Korea has agreed to pay substantially more money to the United States in order to defend itself from North Korea,” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday.

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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